He was raised in the District of Columbia, where he graduated from the Federal City College and from the George Washington University, with a Doctor of Philosophy He taught at Howard University, San Jose State University, the University of California, Los Angeles and Loyola Marymount University.
He is the George and Barbara Kelly Professor of American Literature in the Pennsylvania State University.
Larry Neal Award for poetry two Gertrude Stein for innovation. SAMLA Studies Prize, a Myers Citation and the Kayden Award for best book in the humanities, for Reading Race Josephine Miles Award, for Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation American Book Award for Don"t deny my name: words and music and the black intellectual tradition.
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